The report, released Aug. 5, reinforces what many research advocates have argued for months.

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The Trump administration has violated federal statute by withholding pre-appropriated grants from the National Institutes of Health, according to a report released by the Government Accountability Office Tuesday.

As a nonpartisan legislative agency, the GAO’s findings reinforce what higher education institutions, academic associations and Democrats in Congress have been arguing for months.

The report cites the Impoundment Control Act of 1974, which “allows the President to withhold funds from obligation, but only under strictly limited circumstances and only in a manner consistent with that Act.”

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